How to generate an error

p.s.
Similarly, the "PANIC" keyword.

You could create a Resource Pool that has very little memory available to it, then run a query that needs more memory than is avialable...

dbadmin=> CREATE RESOURCE POOL tiny MAXMEMORYSIZE '1K';
CREATE RESOURCE POOL

dbadmin=> SET RESOURCE_POOL = tiny;
SET

dbadmin=> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM biggie;
  COUNT
---------
 8388608
(1 row)

dbadmin=> SELECT * FROM biggie CROSS JOIN biggie b;
ERROR 3587:  Insufficient resources to execute plan on pool tiny [Request Too Large:Threads Exceeded: Requested = 4, Free = 0 (Limit = 0, Used = 0); File Handles Exceeded: Requested = 4, Free = 0 (Limit = 0, Used = 0); Memory(KB) Exceeded: Requested = 7741, Free = 1 (Limit = 1, Used = 0)]

dbadmin=> \! grep -i insufficient /home/dbadmin/verticademos/v_verticademos_node0001_catalog/vertica.log
2020-12-11 13:32:20.098 Init Session:0x7f90ee7fc700-a0000000031b78 <ERROR> @v_verticademos_node0001: 53000/3587: Insufficient resources to execute plan on pool tiny [Request Too Large:Threads Exceeded: Requested = 4, Free = 0 (Limit = 0, Used = 0); File Handles Exceeded: Requested = 4, Free = 0 (Limit = 0, Used = 0); Memory(KB) Exceeded: Requested = 7741, Free = 1 (Limit = 1, Used = 0)]

@Jim_Knicely

Thank you for your answer.
I was able to reproduce the error using the information you provided.